Should I be worried about the Metacritic score?

Yes, you should totally forget about mass effect. In fact, set fire to your previous games and make 100 accounts on metacritic giving them all a 0 score.

Or, you know... form your own opinion about the game after playing it.



Either's fine.

Nah just read/watch as many reviews as you care to and try and make your mind up based on what you see or read and how you feel about the points raised. Games getting panned by critics won't necessarily mean you'll feel the same way as them and similarly the other way too, only you truly know what you want from a game.

I'm sure people who have played their fair share of this game will chime in with their opinions too and that hopefully will help for you.

Im enjoying it. Been playing 14 hours now and haven't run across anything as bad as Liara turning her head all the way around to talk to me, so eh, it is what it is. Could it be a little cleaner? Sure. But ME has always been bad at that part.

Im enjoying the adventure. And I think they have done a pretty good job of adding things but not making them massively important. You like to scan? You can and get a benifit from it. You dont like to? No biggie you can find a lot of what you need with out it. Make it a good mix for when you feel like doing something different a bit, but not making you feel like you have to spend hours scanning everything you see.

Anyway over all it seems like a pretty standard ME game.

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I enjoyed Final Fantasy 8 despite it was never among the good one in the series a lackluster in comparison to FFX, FFVII, FFVI

Streams. Pretty much the only way to get an opinion from someone else. You get to see all the game rather than cherry picked moments along with their reactions at the time of playing rather than a likely overly critical nit pick of some issues while glazing over all the good.

I don't know how involved you are in the gaming community, but people have hated Bioware with a passion since 2011. If you thought Mass Effect 3 was great, you'll probably think Mass Effect: Andromeda is at least good, despite it's problems. If you thought Mass Effect 3 was mediocre, you'll probably think the same of this.

Honestly, Mass Effect: Andromeda is kind of a blending of Mass Effect 3 and Dragon Age: Inquisition, but not pulled off the best.

I recommend getting it, even if I'm disappointed it doesn't live up to the original trilogy.

Nah. Frak Metacritic.

It definitely lacks quality. For me it was abit depressing while playing trial version. Right away i saw those small things like this place in room, wheres desk and other furniture, you have space between em to move, but you cant without abit of struggle. Its very small thing, but those small things adds together for bigger picture, but in same time the good things i experienced outweighed those bad ones. All in all its just not fully polished game. When its trial its not very big deal, but when you have to pull out your wallet for whole game its different story.
If you have pre ordered i guess you should carry on imo, cuz theres definitely some good things to experience. If you cant decide buy or not. I would say dont buy it at this moment. I really doubt they ll fix facial problems, at least not in near future, but you never know. I would wait abit anyway, maybe they fix, maybe price drops etc.

Like others said, your best bet is to watch the videos and decide. that's what I'm doing for the past five+ years for each game I'm buying. We live in desperate times for video games.